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Live and direct

The moment you've all been waiting for is finally here. Sleevenotez is live. Time to get in there and start breaking it! If you have a last.fm account and listen to a lot of music type your username into the search box on the home page and away you go. If you're not a last.fm user or aren't listening to anything right now it might be worth having a look at our office account to get the full comety loveliness.

Please remember that it's in pre-pre-pre-alpha state at the moment and so it will look rough and ready in places and like as not it will fail on you somewhere. That said, if you are using it and it fails on you in a spectacular fashion please let us know (by leaving a comment here).

We're particularly interested in the following information:

  • What the user you were looking at was listening to, or which artist page were you looking at
  • Did you get any message?
  • What browser version/operating system are you on

The only proper breakages that we know about at the moment are the weird behaviour (or lack thereof) of the back button in IE and the occasional timeout which presents a rather natty flashing warning. We're looking at them both at the moment and will hopefully have fixes in place soon.

And, yes, we know, some of the data for some of the bands is completely wrong (Nirvana, Parliament, Air, etc etc). We are looking into ways of fixing it, but like as not it will be a community driven thing. We're planning on implementing the tech to support user editing of site content in iteration 3, so please hold on!

edit 18:08 01/09: so we launch, and literally 10 minutes later the audioscrobbler post servers go down, meaning that all our comety loveliness doesn't work. Clearly we need a way of a) testing the status of audioscrobbler and b) communicating any failures to our users...

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